The last time I wrote about the TwitterBigStick I looked at its effectiveness, and the consensus was it is a great idea but there is a need for some improvement….

For those planning to send Political Bulk SMS here are the Safaricom tough guidelines for Content & Premium Service.  The guidelines includes the use of  Short Message Service (SMS), Multi…

Samsung Galaxy S3 is now available in both Safaricom shops and FoneXpress. Safaricom shops are selling the phone at Ksh.59,999 while one of the shop keepers at the FoneXpress  confirmed…

When comes to social media in Kenya, many businesses are still on the dark. Well here is something for you Workshop on Demystifying Social Media for Business When: June 22nd…

Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos can not really be called budget smartphone in Kenya although in some parts of the world it is. The price range is around Ksh.20k.  It…

Samsung Electronics, has reiterated its corporate plans to support local Mobile Web Application developers to access the global market. Samsung will provide support to local developers deploying their applications on…

I  have followed closely how the aid agencies including US Government and and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have struggled to get the mobile money ticking in Haiti in…

Here comes competition for both Zuku and Dstv. The paytv space in Kenya has gotten a new entrance in the name of StarTimes. StarTimes Media announced the launch of its…

Ugandans on Twitter reacted angrily to Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy after he reportedly texeted the Finance Minister “We’re the number four power in Europe, Spain is not Uganda”. It…

Capital Markets Authority has approved AccessKenya’s Bonus Share issue to shareholders. The approval will enable the Group to issue and list an additional 10,382,785 ordinary shares of a par value…

The Google Student Africa Summit starts today in Nairobi to 13th June at Chandaria Auditorium, Visa Oshwal, Westlands for 3 days of learning, creativity, networking. The summit will bring together…

Microsoft yesterday officially launched Windows Azure Platform in Kenya. Windows Azure is Microsoft cloud computing platform used to build, host and scale web applications through Microsoft data centers.  But there…

It seems  XYZ is coming back reloaded with Season 6. The popular political satire program returns on June 10th at 9pm on Kiss TV for 6thseason. The show will then…

And the overall winner of Pivot East 2012 is Ma3Racer (KE)… Ma3Racer is a racing game set on the busy Nairobi highways. It is the first in a series of…

One of the most discussed topics around Africa is how hard it is  to get a VC firm  to invest on the new and early stage Startup/s. The issue is…

Just in is the news that Storyspaces is disqualified from the Pivot East Competition. According the Pivot East blog, they had no idea  how deeply engaged the founder of Kuyu…

Today, the June 6th is ipv6 World launch day and I have been impressed with the number of companies in Kenya which have taken the lead to migrate from ipv4…

UniForum SA, the organisation selected by the African Union to run the DotAfrica Top Level Domain registry has partnered with AfriNIC to support training and policy discussions within Africa’s tech…

As we have said many times before, Telcos need to do more to help with growth of ICT sector. The good news is Safaricom has announced that their SDP will…

Epson known for printers and scanners is making the long overdue entrance to Kenyan market.  Epson is already in the process of establishing an office in Nairobi. The office will…

Mfarm limited, an award winning software solutions and agribusiness company  is to launch M-Farm price application in partnership with Samsung.  The app  is available on both Android and Samsung’s Bada…

Yeah, Rwanda a country determined to become the regional ICT hub by 2020, is the only country in the world that does not  manage its own top-level domain.  Rwanda’s country-code…

Pivot East regional mobile apps. developer competition which will culminate in a pitching conference on 5th and 6th June 2012. The competition has five categories with each having  finalists pitching to…

You probably have used Google Translate, a tool which has the ability to amaze you and frustrate you at the same measure. Sometime the translation is right but the order…

Here comes an event which we highly  recommend that you all attend “The Creativez Meet-up – Intellectual Property” taking place this Sunday 3rd June from 14h00 to 17h00 at iHub.

So Pivot East is around the corner and I have been going through the final list of those who will pitch for their ideas. I will profile each of the…

I have no idea how subsea oil production works but with me is the news that Dow Oil & Gas has launched the NEPTUNE™ Advanced Subsea Flow Assurance Insulation System. …

Airtel was awarded a license by the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency (RURA) late last year to operate 2G and 3G GSM mobile services in Rwanda.  And now it plans to …

Recently I came to the conclusion that we should be realistic when talking about innovation in Kenya, and I blogged about the problem of developing for feature phones. Yesterday ,…

Paysure Limited in partnership with Kenswitch and Chase Bank today launched online payments platform. Paysure Limited one of the recipients of the 2012/2013 Tandaa Kenya grant developed a web application…